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  1. Re:Quick Script + Gutenberg? on Amazon's 1,082-volume Classics Collection: $7,989 · · Score: 1

    As an English Major you should know it is its not it's when you said "It's catalogue falls far short."

    That said I agree with you that Gutenberg has many failings.

  2. Re:They already know.. on Advocating Dvorak · · Score: 1

    Impossible? I guess then the typewriters that were patented in 1714, 1809, 1829, 1845, 1864, and 1865 are fabrications by the Illuminati and all of which predate the 1867 Sholes typewriter that used the Qwerty layout.

    Handy Wikipedia link to Typewriter

  3. Re:OK, now..... on ACLU to Challenge Utah Porn-Blocking Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They are only legally obligated is asked to do so by the customer, this is completely opt-in.

    Unless there is something I'm missing, this is just like the V-chip, parents have control over whether it gets turned on or off, not the government, not the ISP.

  4. Re:Um... pokerbot will always win on $100,000 Poker Bot Tournament · · Score: 1

    Usually a final bet is made after the fifth card hits the table, you still have to calculate the probability of your opponent having so and so card so you can place a bet based on the cards in your hand.

    If there is 2 Aces and 1 9 and 1 6 showing on the table and the fifth card is another Ace, and you have 2 Kings, you have a Full house, but that is beatable by 4 of a kind, which although possible, isn't very probable that he has the 4th Ace, so you bet high, which you might not have done so if the 3rd Ace hadn't shown up.

  5. Re:Ummm...this is 2005. on Body Modifications Still Hinder IT Professionals? · · Score: 1

    New Jersey, New York, California and many other prosperous states also has "At will" employment, your argument that "texas is host to the most and poorest counties in the country" is caused by that is pure FUD.

    If at will employment was removed, shouldn't it work both ways? Your employer has to give a valid reason for firing you or pay, shouldn't you have to give a valid reason for quitting or pay them? They did invest time, money, trust in you.

    Thanks, I'll keep my freedom of working at will.

  6. Re:NO on Voice Actors Vote on VG Strike · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And yet Blizzard who seems to constantly produce high quality games (or at least massively selling ones) uses no professional voice talent, Bill Roper, one of their Senior Producers did a lot of voice acting for them.

    They commonly use their "programmers or the programmers' friends" and do so quite well.

  7. Re:Confusion on Basics of Modern Intel CPUs · · Score: 1

    Please don't muck up what you don't understand, to begin with PCI-Express terminology is x1, not 1x

    an x1 slot runs at 2500 mhz serially that equals 2500 megabit/s or approx 313 MB/s

    I'm not sure where you get 250 MB/s from

    likewise an x16 slot runs 16 lanes at 2500 mhz so 16 times 2500 equals 40,000 megabit/s or 5000 MB/s

  8. Re:Confusion on Basics of Modern Intel CPUs · · Score: 2, Informative

    PCI-Express was formerly known as 3GIO, which was the main competitor to PCI-X, though PCI-X was never intended to really be much more than transitory.

    All busses come and go, at least PCI-Express is not a retarded one like AGP, which has no real limitation to be only used to graphics, you could make a RAID card or anything else that requires lots of bandwidth and place it there too, gamers and their graphics just seemed to most people to be the only ones who "needed" that kind of bandwidth.

  9. Re:Confusion on Basics of Modern Intel CPUs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Move to PCI-X? I've been using PCI-X cards and slots for about 2 years, just recently have I been using PCI-E, PCI-X is also compatible with standard PCI slots, it's just faster versions of the 64 bit type.

    PCI-E (PCI-Express) is a brand new slot of varying lengths which enable different speed cards, x1 slots are capable of of 313 megabytes/sec, x16 which is common for graphics cards is 5000megabytes/sec, twice as fast as AGP 8x.

    Current PCI-X speeds for the 133 mhz version is 1067 megabytes/sec(there is also a slower 100 mhz version of PCI-X), there is a PCI-X version2 coming out with bus speeds of up to 533 mhz, enabling 4267 megabytes/sec.

  10. Re:Sooo.... on Email Addiction Runs Rampant · · Score: 1

    Exactly, how is this any different than checking your voice mail messages or reading the newspaper?

    I do most of my communication with coworkers via email, so of course I check it a couple times a day. I also listen to my voice mails whenever I notice a new one (not always stuck behind a desk).

  11. Re:Why? on Four GPU Motherboard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    HD video output 1920x1080, do real time rendering of movies, why send a extremely large pre rendered movie when you can send just a couple scene files (though like compiled code vs source code they could end up being larger than the compiled version).

    Play game with real HD graphics.

    Don't limit the idea to just computer monitors.

    TV stations could use it to make real time HD talking heads, your anchor woman is sick, but signed a release to use her features in case she is sick to render her, or have her be in two places at once, or do without anchor people and CG everything.

  12. Re:Why use debit on the internet? on Dealing with Internet Credit Card Fraud? · · Score: 1

    I can not get a credit card at all, I don't have bad credit, I just have no credit, so I'm forced to use a credit card, which doesn't help my credit rating at all to enable me to get a credit card.

    All those prequalified ones? they're either not Visa or Mastercard credit cards (some kind of club where the only thing you can buy is their overpriced junk) or I wasn't really prequalified.

    And everytime I apply for a credit card (gas, Sears, Visa, anything that isn't one of those scammy club ones) I get denied which goes right on my credit report, which I do review regularly, but there is nothing "bad" on there except multiple denieds, no late payments, no defaults, no bankruptcies, I'm in a grey area and pretty much screwed, I even got turned by one credit card where I had to put a deposit down.

    And my one experience with a credit union I even got turned down for a debit card.

    So debit card is the only way I can pay for things on the internet or in case I forget to hit an in bank ATM.

  13. Re:I'm not a Californian on Tinfoil Hat House · · Score: 1

    That's all right, soon in California you won't be able to plug in a toaster or a blender, or run speaker wires without a permit.

  14. Re:The bigger they are... on Over Half a Million Bank Accounts Breached · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually I prefer the big guys over the one credit union I was with, never had a single problem with Citi or HSBC, but Visions Federal Credit Union (IBM's credit union based out of Endicott area) I've had no end of troubles with.

    Nickel-and-dime is all they did, right now I owe them over 40$ to close my 20$ account and the number just grows year after year, I get statements from them, but I just shred them.

  15. Re:Simple network, relatively speaking on What's in a Typical Geek Home Network? · · Score: 1

    For measuring pure bandwidth, the two bests tools I've used are ttcp and iperf, both available for UNIXy and Windows, and since the source for both is available just about anything else you want.

    Source code is available for iperf under GPL, and ttcp looks to have a MIT style license but I'm not sure, it's really vague, iperf is probably the better tool anyway.

  16. Repeat after me PCI-X != PCI Express on How Many Desktop PCs Can One Server Replace? · · Score: 2, Informative

    No one makes PCI-X display adapters, only regular PCI ones, and those are getting harder to find and unsuitable for what you desire.

    This machine has 0 AGP and 0 PCI Express slots, only "Graphics Integrated 1280 x 1024, 16M color on PCI local bus, 8 MB of SDRAM video memory".

    Neat idea, but sorry.

  17. Re:Ebay Copy For Sale on Librarians Fighting to Save Moore's Law Issue · · Score: 1

    Any patent violations described in it would have expired long ago.

    A lot of people collect more than they need when collecting, they collect 10 of so and so years model of a certain car, does that make more sense? It isn't like they can drive them all at the same time, and even if they did their value would decrease.

    Some people like backups of not just their computer systems, or Intel wants to display it at multiple locations.

  18. Re:Doesn't really mean much... on Survey Reveals Americans Support Blog Censorship · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the 2 elections before those whiel you're at it.

  19. Re:No - we're doomed. on Sea Life Wiped Out by Neutron Star Collision? · · Score: 1

    We have plenty of space on the Earth for populations of people, we just choose not to use them, Americans throw away vast amounts of food every year because it's easier to throw it away and pretend a problem doesn't exist than it is to ship it to where it is needed, including within the country where many people are homeless and hungry.

    Las Vegas was a wasteland until someone poured money into it to make it hospitable to human life, Nevada along with much os the rest of the world is not very sustaining to human life, but with money and effort humans can live anywhere.

  20. Re:Cracker schmackers on New York Computerizes its Subway System · · Score: 1

    After that maybe Japan will finally be up against the wall for the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, Unit 731, and all the rest of the stuff they did, which on many cases is on par or suprasses the atrocities comitted by the Nazis.

    The nuclear bomb drop caused as many deaths in its entirety (on one side, the enemies, and isn't that what war is about?) as continuing the war for extended periods of time, during which civilians still would have died.

    Now the firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden might be a valid point to bring up.

  21. Re:Baen Books on Good Online Sources for Free Books? · · Score: 3, Informative

    In addition to the Baen free library, Baen has also put 7 freely distributable cds containg many books into some of their hardcover books, with the text "This disk and its contents may be copied and shared but NOT sold."

    This site and this site both host the first 6 cds as web browsable books.

    This site contains torrents for all 7 cds.

  22. It is Daylight Saving Time, no S on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 1

    Even the linked article got it right, why must people insist on calling it Daylight Savings Time?

    Daylight Saving Time info.

  23. Re:About freaking time! on HP Contract Workers Sue For Recognition · · Score: 1

    I'll quote what someone else quoted from the article

    "Jennifer Miller of Nampa is one of the plaintiffs. Miller said she was employed by HP in Boise from 1989 to 1995, when she took a severance package and left the company. She returned later in 1995 as a contract worker and worked at HP until March 9. Part of the time she was a contract employee through Veritest and Manpower Professional. Her jobs included testing software for HP printers."

    If you work for Manpower Professional, THEY provide you with a 401k, vacation days, etc. I know, I've worked for them in the past (at IBM), it's basically subcontracting out a job, there's nothing temp about the job, Manpower told me what to wear, when to be at work, when my lunch breaks were, where to work, and etc. It was generally recognized that doing what the IBM employees asked you to do (they had no real authority over us and they knew it too) was not a bad idea, but in no way did any of us think we worked for IBM.

    These people are not contractors, they're employees of Manpower.

  24. he uses a mac and says pc is lame on mc chris Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    but he doesn't know what iTMS is? Though i guess most mac people when presented with the term iTMS might not associate it with iTunes

    Thanks for the interview, still waiting on next album

    and his website has turned all to flash

  25. Re:information is not a democracy on FUD-Based Encyclopedias · · Score: 1

    Thanks for saving me the trouble of writing that, and you did it better than I would have.

    I not a religious person at all, but billions of years of random things happened to cuase you to be born is a lot less likely than a greater power guiding in an intelligent fashion those "random" changes.

    And the GP poster calls rednecks ignorant.